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Severin vs Sevyn

American parents have registered 6,239 Sevyns since 1880, against 914 Severins. Sevyn is still ahead, with 908 babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Severin against Sevyn, 1880 to 2025 0 250 500 750 1k 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Severin Sevyn

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 79 years in which either name was published, Severin for 63 years and Sevyn for 16 years. The lead changed hands 3 times.

Side by side

  Severin Sevyn
Total US births 9146,239
Most in one year 28911
Babies in 2025 15908
Estimated living today 7106,200
Median age today 193
Peak year 20142023
Best rank 3,693rd boys544th girls
Rank in 2025 5,861st574th
First recorded 19081999
Girls / boys 0 / 9143,930 / 2,309

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Severins alive today are over 19; half the Sevyns are over 3. That is 16 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

Both names abroad

Countries whose statistics office publishes both names, so the comparison can be made somewhere other than the United States.

Country Severin Sevyn
England and Wales 749

Every spelling a country files separately is added together, over whatever years that country publishes — which is not the same range in any two of them, so read the columns against each other and not the rows.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Severin and Sevyn.